The word "docks" is correct and commonly used in written English.
It can refer to a location where boats are loaded or unloaded, a platform on the water where ships can be tied up, or the area of a port where vessels are moored for loading and unloading goods. Example: We could see the tall ships docked at the harbor as we walked along the wooden planks of the docks.
Thoughtfully equipped with proper kitchens, Wi-Fi and iPod docks, and brimming with all sorts of art, they feel like proper homes.
The docks are stupendous buildings, but what impressed me most were the splendid arrangements for unloading vessels, which came close up to the quays, and disembarked their cargoes into the shops as it were.
At times, the docks in the capital, St John's, have five cruises depositing around 10,000 people on an island with a population of 60,000.
Do like the longshoremen from the nearby docks and get there early: John's closes at 3pm in the week and 4pm on Saturdays.
The "secret" paper for the meeting spelled out the dangers a week after the dockers had walked out: "The political and economic stake[s] are much higher for the government in the coal dispute than in the docks dispute.
Trautmann was born in Bremen, where his father worked in the docks, and he volunteered for the army aged 17. "Growing up in Hitler's Germany, you had no mind of your own," he told Louise Taylor of the Observer in 2010.
He later claimed that watching Protestant politicians campaign in Belfast as a child made him want to go on the stump, and when he left the sea, he stood for Belfast city council, then the Stormont parliament, as a Republican Labour candidate for the docks area of the city.
The rail route into Immingham docks, for example, is bottlenecked.
Thatcher's own handwritten notes on "possible strategies for the coal and docks dispute" paper for the 18 July meeting of Misc 101, the special cabinet committee on coal that she chaired, outlines the details of the plans to use the army.
One local fisherman recommends that Italian coastguards ensure that intercepted migrant ships are properly destroyed once their passengers are rescued: in Libyan docks this week, visitors can easily find "recycled" boats that have been salvaged by opportunistic smugglers.
But the story was so true to waterfront life that some of the men who had stood in line on the docks, hoping to be hired for a day's work, believed it to be true – or nearly true.
